Adding and Browsing Comments in E-newspaper: An Initial Experiment

Abstract

This paper describes an initial survey and an experiment that aimed to investigate usability issues when users add comments on articles in electronic newspapers. The work also measures the effectiveness of using multimodal communication metaphors, such as graphics and speech. In interfaces for e-newspaper. The survey was performed with 36 people and the experiment with 50 users. Usability was measured in a multimodal interface (experimental condition) compared to a traditional interface (control condition). Results indicate that using a new classification system to annotate articles in addition to sound recording is better approach than using the traditional approach to ‘add comments'.